Bison Books
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Civil War Short Stories
$14.95 Add to cartIn The Devil’s Dictionary Ambrose Bierce defined “war” as “a by-product of the arts of peace.” A Civil War veteran, Bierce had absolutely no illusions about “courage,” “honor,” and “glory” on the batt… [more below]
- Author: Bierce, Ambrose
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 139
- Publish Date: January 01 1988
- ISBN10: 0803260873
- Language: English
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Dodge County, Incorporated: Big AG and the Undoing of Rural America
$24.95 Add to cartIn 2014 Sonja Trom Eayrs’s parents filed the first of three lawsuits against Dodge County officials and their neighbors, one of the few avenues available to them to challenge installation of a corpora… [more below]
- Author: Trom Eayrs, Sonja
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: November 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1496234995
- Language: English
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Grit and Ghosts: Following the Trail of Eight Tenacious Women Across a Century
$26.95 Add to cartAs a student and teacher of history, Robin Foster is well aware that humans have persisted through major hardships as long as they have existed. When faced with the anxious dread many felt at the begi… [more below]
- Author: Foster, Robin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 230
- Publish Date: November 01 2024
- ISBN10: 149623846X
- Language: English
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Journey to Freedom: Uncovering the Grayson Sisters’ Escape from Nebraska Territory
$34.95 Add to cartIn late November of 1858 two enslaved Black women–Celia Grayson, age twenty-two, and Eliza Grayson, age twenty–escaped the Stephen F. Nuckolls household in southeastern Nebraska. John Williamson, a … [more below]
- Author: Blankenau, Gail Shaffer
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: March 01 2024
- ISBN10: 149623152X
- Language: English
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The Story Catcher
$14.95 Add to cartYoung Lance is his father’s son when it comes to the daring needed for gaining honors in the war councils of the plains Sioux. Even greater is his seeing medicine. With eyes growing sharper, he watche… [more below]
- Author: Sandoz, Mari
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 175
- Publish Date: June 01 1986
- ISBN10: 0803291639
- Language: English
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Kit Carson and the Wild Frontier
$14.95 Add to cartDozens of books and dime novels have been written about the reckless, daring adventures of Kit Carson’s youth. Little has been told of the wisdom and greatness of his later years.–Ralph Moody
In 1826
- Author: Moody, Ralph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: March 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0803283040
- Language: English
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Nez Perce Summer, 1877: The U.S. Army and the Nee-Me-Poo Crisis
$31.95 Add to cartNez Perce Summer, 1877 tells the story of a people’s epic struggle to survive spiritually, culturally, and physically in the face of unrelenting military force. Written by one of the foremost experts … [more below]
- Author: Greene, Jerome a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 578
- Publish Date: September 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1496232666
- Language: English
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The Soul of the Indian: An Interpretation
$18.95 Add to cartThe Soul of the Indian is Charles A. Eastman’s exploration and documentation of religion as he experienced it during the late nineteenth century. A Dakota physician and writer who sought to bring unde… [more below]
- Series: Bison Classic Editions
- Author: Eastman, Charles A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 156
- Publish Date: April 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1496200594
- Language: English
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Blood in the Borderlands: Conflict, Kinship, and the Bent Family, 1821-1920
$29.95 Add to cartHistorical Society of New Mexico’s Gaspar Pérez de Villagrá Award
The Bents might be the most famous family in the history of the American W
Santa Fe Trail Association’s Louise Barry Writing Award- Author: Beyreis, David C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 270
- Publish Date: May 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1496234650
- Language: English
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After Lewis and Clark: Mountain Men and the Paths to the Pacific
$21.95 Add to cartIn 1807, a year after Lewis and Clark returned from the shores of the Pacific, groups of trappers and hunters began to drift West to tap the rich stocks of beaver and to trade with the Native nations…. [more below]
- Author: Utley, Robert M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 426
- Publish Date: November 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0803295642
- Language: English
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Old North Trail
$24.95 Add to cartIn 1886 Walter McClintock went to northwestern Montana as a member of a U.S. Forest Service expedition. He was adopted as a son by Chief Mad Dog, the high priest of the Sun Dance, and spent the next f… [more below]
- Author: McClintock, Walter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 539
- Publish Date: September 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0803282583
- Language: English
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Complete Poems
$18.95 Add to cartErnest Hemingway never wished to be widely known as a poet. He concentrated on writing short stories and novels, for which he won the Nobel Prize in 1956. But his poetry deserves close attention, if o… [more below]
- Author: Hemingway, Ernest
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 171
- Publish Date: January 01 1983
- ISBN10: 0803272596
- Language: English
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Twelve Thousand Years: American Indians in Maine
$26.95 Add to cartTwelve Thousand Years: American Indians in Maine documents the generations of Native peoples who for twelve millennia have moved through and eventually settled along the rocky coast, rivers, lakes, va… [more below]
- Author: Bourque, Bruce J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 388
- Publish Date: September 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0803262310
- Language: English
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Black Snake: Standing Rock, the Dakota Access Pipeline, and Environmental Justice
$24.95 Add to cart2022 High Plains Book Award Winner for First Book
2022 Eric Hoffer Award Grand Prize Short List
2022 Eric Hoffer Award Honorable Mention in Culture
2022 IPPY Gold Medal in Environment/Ecology
2022… [more below]- Author: Todrys, Katherine Wiltenburg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1496222660
- Language: English
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Mad Seasons: The Story of the First Women’s Professional Basketball League, 1978-1981
$24.95 Add to cartAs the popularity of women’s basketball burgeons, Karra Porter reminds us in Mad Seasons that today’s Women’s National Basketball Association, or WNBA had its origins in a ragtag league twenty years e… [more below]
- Author: Porter, Karra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0803287895
- Language: English
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Portrait of a City: Lincoln, Nebraska, at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
$29.95 Add to cartOnce just a scattering of houses on the open prairie, by the late nineteenth century the city of Lincoln, Nebraska, had evolved into a modern metropolis. The changes ushered in by the Industrial Revol… [more below]
- Author: Pauley, Bruce F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 334
- Publish Date: September 01 2023
- ISBN10: 149623412X
- Language: English
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Recollections of a Handcart Pioneer of 1860: A Woman’s Life on the Mormon Frontier
$11.95 Add to cartIn the summer of 1860 the author of these recollections, Mary Ann Stucki, then six years old, walked beside her parents’ handcart from Florence (Omaha), Nebraska, to Salt Lake City, Utah. The family, … [more below]
- Author: Hafen, Mary Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: May 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0803273401
- Language: English
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Some More Horse Tradin’
$21.95 Add to cartFrom the same corral that produced the widely loved Horse Tradin’, Ben K. Green has rounded up fifteen new yarns filled with the ornery yet irresistible style that has earned his books a place in clas
- Author: Green, Ben K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0803270925
- Language: English
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Need for the Bike
$16.95 Add to cartA book like no other, Frenchman Paul Fournel’s Need for the Bike conducts readers into a very personal world of communication and connection whose center is the bicycle, and where all people and thing… [more below]
- Author: Fournel, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 150
- Publish Date: September 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0803269099
- Language: English
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The Smart Take from the Strong: The Basketball Philosophy of Pete Carril
$18.95 Add to cart“The strong take from the weak, but the smart take from the strong.” So said Pete Carril’s father, a Spanish immigrant who worked for thirty-nine years in a Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, steel mill. His so
- Author: Carril, Pete
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 206
- Publish Date: October 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0803264488
- Language: English
